I’m still a bit giddy about the Angels signing Shohei Ohtani. Attending the press conference was an incredible experience, and I was thrilled to get to ask a question on behalf of the fans. As I’m processing all the information that came out, I had some thoughts on the signing and the implications going forward. […]

The professional baseball franchise, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim is a member of the West Division of the American League (AL). The team was established in 1961 and has been based Angels Stadium of Anaheim since 1966 in Anaheim, California. The Los Angeles Angels has some of the leagues most popular players and deadliest […]

Just about everything from the 2016 season could be viewed as a disaster for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Looking back now, it was probably a bit of foreshadowing when outfielder — and spark plug — A.J. Pollock went down with an elbow injury on the eve of the regular season. Instead of taking a step forward from […]

There isn’t a ton we can gather from Eppler’s time as the Angels’ General Manager, but with just over a year worth of data, we can start to put together patterns which could be applied in principle to this year’s free agent class in an effort to illuminate where the Angels might go. First, let’s […]

The end of the season is mercifully approaching for the Los Angeles Angels. The roster itself is actually a solid one, worthy of contention in any given year. There’s just no way any team could work around injuries to a Garrett Richards, Andrew Heaney, Nick Tropeano, Tyler Skaggs led rotation and find success. A General […]

Every game in an audition when you’re in the minor leagues. The old saying that the cream rises to surface applies here. When you take the most talented young baseball players on Earth, and force them to play against one another, the best will always rise to the occasion and put up numbers. Hype, signing […]

One of my obsessions over the last few years has been former Baltimore Orioles/California Angels second baseman Bobby Grich. One of the reasons for this is that his national profile does not get the attention it deserves, and I want to remind people just what a great baseball player he was. For that reason, I […]

Hey everyone out there who is still listening to Monkey with a Halo. I have published a new book that is available now at Amazon. It is This Day in Angel History, a compilation of my Today in Halo History articles, one for every day of the year. As you know, I love writing about […]

With the minor league regular season just finished, now is a good time to look at who the leaders were on the Angels’ farm. There will be a couple of familiar names on this list that even a casual Angel fan should recognize. Of the six highest levels on the ladder of development on Angels’ […]

As a baseball writer, I am a frequent visitor of such websites as baseball-reference and FanGraphs, and it never fails. My initial reaction is always one of being hit by the staggering amount of information and the many complicated ways of looking at this information that exists for baseball and which is unprecedented for any […]

Life can be complicated sometimes. For the most part, those who are able to simplify it tend to be the happiest. Baseball is a simple game, and thus it brings joy to fans around the world. But the Angels, they’re a complicated team, and that leads to a lot of discontent. Their fan base would […]

Wanna hear something crazy? When I was doing some research today for a new baseball book that I’m writing, I came to read about an Angel third baseman named Robert Eenhoorn from the 1996 and 1997 seasons who is a knight. A knight! As in Sir Paul McCartney or Sir Winston Churchill. Sir Robert Eenhoorn […]

On a night when all eyes were watching Inland Empire 66er Alex Meyer, the pitching prospect acquired by the Angels in the Hector Santiago trade with the Twins who is working towards a September call-up to the big league team, it was outfielder Michael Hermosillo who made everyone take notice. The 21-year-old Hermosillo was playing […]

Last off-season was the most disappointing for Angels fans since 2010, the year Tony Reagins showed up inexplicably late to the winter meetings, fled on foot to avoid having an interview with Jon Heyman and failed to sign the two players who basically were linked as strong as any player could be linked, to the Angels (Carl […]

I received a little punch to the gut when I was surfing around the Angel baseball sections of the internet and saw that first baseman Eric Aguilera of the Angels’ Double-A Arkansas Travelers was suspended for the rest of the season on August 21st. Angel officials are keeping details of the suspension out of the […]

Throughout the course of a season, a General Manager tends to make dozens of moves. Most of them never merit a headline on MLBTR. In fact, Billy Eppler just made one such move by acquiring LHP Manny Banuelos. If the name brings a bell, it’s because Banuelos is a former consensus Top 50 prospect in […]

Everyone and their mother posts a top prospect list for their respective teams. We’re no different (just better ;). But the top prospects are just a small fraction of the actual amount of minor leaguers each team has (typically closer to 300). Believe it or not, there are some prospects that most sites aren’t noticing, […]

Before today’s game against the New York Yankees, a ceremony will be held to induct the newest member of the Angel Hall of Fame, former outfielder Garret Anderson. He will rightly join the fourteen other inductees already enshrined in the club’s hall, but the question on many fans’ minds is, in addition to his hall […]

So this year was a total bust for the Los Angeles Angels, and people all over the baseball world are trying to make sense of it. The most optimistic are holding on to the hope that the Halos will be able to bounce back in 2017, while at the other end of the spectrum, there […]

On September 11th, 2008, Angel closer Francisco Rodriguez tied former White Sox closer Bobby Thigpen’s 1990 Major League record of 57 saves in one season. Rodriguez tied the record in a home game against the Seattle Mariners one day after the Angels had clinched the AL West title. It looked like Rodriguez was going to […]